The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Compassion is not just about being kind to others. It's about being kind to ourselves as well.

Time passes unhindered. When we make ourselves better, we make the world better.

The superior person is like water, bringing benefit to all without competing.

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

The zazen I speak of is not meditation practice. It is simply the dharma gate of joyful ease.

When you recognize that pain and suffering are impermanent, you become free.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Every step on the path must be with the understanding of anicca - impermanence. This is the essence of the teaching.

Happiness is not the pursuit of an endless succession of experiences but an attitude toward life.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

The root of all suffering is ignorance. The antidote to ignorance is wisdom that realizes emptiness.

The root of suffering is not in the world outside us but in our own minds.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Mindfulness is being aware of what's going on, not trying to control what's going on.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Meditation is not about escaping from difficulty but about meeting it with awareness.